Will Dean (1)

Even though there were not a lot of characters or a lot going on, this was an absolutely fantastic book. There is suspense throughout just hoping that she'll be able to escape, that something will happen. A woman is captured by a man and it's all about her life there and her broken ankle. That sticks out to me. The pain from her ankle sounded absolutely awful. Of course, she falls pregnant. And then it's about protecting her baby from him. And the creepiest of all is that he names everyone Jane after his mother. So creepy. Great suspenseful book where you're just rooting for the main chracter to get out and be saved. I've heard great things about this author and I understand why and want to read the rest of his books!… (mehr)

Molly and Katie are identical twins but are completely different personality-wise. Katie is more adventurous and outgoing while Molly is more reserved and, honestly, sees danger everywhere but takes her safety very seriously. Katie had moved to New York from their hometown in England after getting a scholarship to Columbia. And then Molly’s world is turned upside down when she receives a call from her parents that Katie has been murdered. Despite her fears, Molly gets on a plane and flies to NY to be with her parents and, once there, is determined to find out who killed Katie.
Once there, Molly starts researching the scholarship Katie received and stumbles upon secret emails containing information about a secret life Katie was leading. That’s when things got interesting and weird both at the same time. There are several suspects to Katie’s murder – the weird YouTuber downstairs from Katie’s apartment, her boyfriend, her friend Violet, a married professor with whom Katie has an affair and even Katie and Molly’s dad is briefly a suspect.
There are a few twists in this book and once the first one was revealed, I sorta had it figured out but wanted to keep reading to see if I was right (I was). This book is a super fast read and while the book was good, there were some aspects of the storyline that were just a bit unbelievable so you may have to suspend your beliefs/thinking while reading it. One thing that stood out to me as a possible (big) error is that a room is reserved at the Ritz under the “name of a dead person”, so obviously the reader will wonder who that could be. Then, in a later chapter, we read that a notepad in the hotel room has the name of the person who supposedly reserved the room….and that never gets resolved.… (mehr)

Terrifying. Imagine waking up on a luxury ocean liner and finding that you are one of only a few people remaining on the ship. Caz thinks that she and her partner, Pete, are crossing the Atlantic to America. However, the day after embarking, she wakes to find Pete, and all the other passengers gone. Then, she slowly encounters a few other people on the ship, and they realize they are on the ship alone, with no one steering the boat, no food, no electricity, no chance.
Where is everyone else, and why did they all disappear.
Just when you think you are OK, you read the last line of the novel. Utterly terrifying!… (mehr)

This is an enjoyable thriller most of the way through, although it suffers from an implausible premise. Narrator Caz and her boyfriend are crossing the Atlantic from Britain to America by ocean liner, but when she wakes up on the first morning at sea, she's alone. REALLY alone. Not only is the boyfriend gone, but so are a thousand fellow passengers and the entire crew. Eventually Caz locates three other travelers, and together they try to figure out how they survived an apparent onboard apocalypse, and how they can sustain themselves through the six day crossing after the electricity goes out (or was it turned off, and by whom?) with little access to food and water. Eventually a TV screen on the Lido Deck is illuminated by the lips and the cheery chirping of a TV reality show host, who offers the four the choice of either opting out of the survival game they are being forced to play and being removed from the nightmare or staying on and competing to win five million dollars if they're the last one alive on board. I think the story went downhill as the contest began, but it was still very suspenseful until an extremely questionable "Oh, come on!" ending. Those who are repelled by reality TV will be put off by the hardships faced by the unwitting cohort, but there are those who would take pleasure in their suffering.… (mehr)